Thursday, September 16, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Works by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore, and Charlie Wollowitz.

Anagama Nakama: 7 Anagama Potters
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Works by Marvin Bjurlin, Julie Crosby, Fred Herbst, Cary Joseph, Marc Peter Keane, Chris Longwell, and Momoko Takeshita.

OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

OCC Faculty Art Show is a collection of artworks in various mediums from about 20 art instructors. The work covers a broad range of genres including elements of representational, nonrepresentational and abstract art forms.

Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond" features the work of five SU faculty members -- Anne Cofer, Mary Giehl and Sarah Saulson (fiber arts/material studies) and Marion Dorfer and Eileen Gosson (surface pattern design).

Cofer, an installation artist, had her first museum solo exhibition "Concealed Objects" at the Everson Museum of Art in spring 2009 and a permanent site-specific project for SU's Hinds Hall installed in May. She has been published nationally in Ceramics Monthly and internationally in Ceramics Art and Perception. Her work has been pictured in the New York Times and was selected for “500 Ceramic Sculptures” (Lark, 2009).

Dorfer began her successful freelance business, MY Designs, after graduating from SU. From 1986-2004, she collaborated with her agent John Sacks of Jane-Albert Studios Inc. in New York City. Her speculative design work was exhibited and sold yearly at the studio as well as at the Surtex (New York City), Heimtextil (Germany) and Indigo (France) trade shows. Through Jane-Albert Studios and independent commissions, she has created designs for printed and woven textiles, wall covering, glass, ceramic products and paper products.

Giehl, who creates installations as well as two-dimensional work and sculpture, recently exhibited her work in group shows at Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art in Utica; ArtRage and Point of Contact Gallery in Syracuse; the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn; and Main Street Gallery in Groton. Her numerous community art projects include serving as guest curator for Syracuse's Lipe Art Park, where she is working to enhance the park's 600-foot fence by creating an abstract image of the Erie Canal using felt made from recycled plastic bottles.

Gosson's professional career began as a designer and colorist for Scalamandré Silks in New York City; she later worked as an assistant to Anne Marie de Samarjay, owner of Samarjay Associates, a surface pattern design agency in Manhattan. That position led to 20-plus years of freelance design experience for multiple product categories within industry. Her clients include Waverly, a division of F. Schumacher & Co.; Brewster Wallcovering Co.; Kenneth James line; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Lynn Hollyn Associates, the Smithsonian Institution; Warner Wallcovering; Western Textile Co.; and Brunschwig & Fils.

Saulson is a professional handweaver and workshop leader with an interest in ethnic textiles and processes. She served on the board of Weave a Real Peace, an organization that serves as a catalyst for improving the quality of life of weavers and textile artisans in communities-in-need, and she has taught dyeing and weaving in Ghana, where she also conducted a research project on craft cooperatives for SERRV International, a nonprofit, fair trade organization. She recently exhibited her work at Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts.

Honoring The Masters: Works of Ann Milner and Phil DeMocker
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

There will be an oriental brush painting and origami workshop 5:00-8:00 pm in conjunction with Th3.

"Honoring the Masters," featuring Ann Milner's oriental brush painting and Phil DeMocker's origami, is a tribute to artists of the past setting the standards for today's active artists and gallery goers. Highlighted will be "masters" from noted dynasties. The "Mustard Seed Garden Manual, first published in the mid-1600s, will be the reference for some techniques in both learning and creating pieces of Oriental brush painting. Reproductions of work from ancient and more recent masters will show the background and heritage next to current representations of classical subjects and composition.

Origami pieces will represent Phil's favorite designer/folders and will be labeled to explain why he has chosen those artists.

As with most art, copying the work of an established artist is considered distasteful and cheap. While the art of the Orient to copy a master is considered one highest forms of art. Ann Milner is painting in the Sumie style from the Mustard Seed Manual, a comprehensive work of style, structure and form. Phil DeMocker is working from the works of both past and present masters of origami.

84th Annual Juried Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception 5:00-7:00 pm.

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

Objects & Atmospheres
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Nathan Sullivan: Paintings and lithographs
Joshua Primmer: Stoneware vessels
Brenda Edwards: Paintings and drawings

Sullivan's oil on panel "Form Series" are masterfully painted, Vermeer-like in their surface quality. His images of suspended or floating tiny organic objects such as seeds are rendered to large scale in chiaroscuro, resulting in their otherworldly presence.

Primmer is exhibiting his intimately scaled stoneware objects and vessels. While one may consider the relatively small scale of his work, it possesses a monumentality usually restricted to large scale work and architecture.

Edwards' depictions in her soft focus drawings and paintings range from sultry atmospheres to luminous mists. They are moments that catch the play of light in their respective environments.

4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available, the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

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Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

Monumental Printstallations
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

A reception will be held 6:00-8:00 pm in conjunction with Th3.

Large-scale works created by artists at Lake Effect Editions, the press of the printmaking program at Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, are the subject of this exhibition. The show features the work of student, faculty, and visiting artists, including Nicholaus Arnold, Marco Camacho, Susan Edmunds, John Hancock, Dusty Herbig, Neil Hueber, Eric Johanni, Rich Kim, Kristen Leonard, and Sam Tobias.

Opening: Works of Cui Fei
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Born in Jinan, China, Cui received her BFA degree in painting from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China (now China National Academy of Fine Arts) in 1993, and her MFA degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Nature is a recurring theme in Cui's work; an artist mainly known for her abstract Chinese calligraphy and related installations using twigs or thorns. For this exhibit, she will create works on paper using thorns and an installation consisting of salt, as a reference to Syracuse's history. Her work comments on the central role of nature, her Chinese origins, and current practices in the West. The vault will display a healing piece using sand referring to the tradition of sand paintings by Native Americans, Tibetan monks, Indians, Australian Aborigines, and Latin Americans. Though widely exhibited, this is Cui's first solo museum exhibition.

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Opening: Holding Phenomenae and Object Transitions
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

Photographs and assemblages by Sarah Averill.

There will be an opening reception 6:00-8:00 pm in conjunction with Th3, the Third Thursday art open.

Americans Who Tell the Truth: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A collection of portraits intended to remind people of the dignity, courage and importance of some of America's truth tellers. Each portrait includes a moving quote by the subject, and a biography is displayed with each painting. One lesson to be learned from all of these Americans is that the greatness of our country frequently depends not on the letter of the law, but the insistence of a single person that we adhere to the spirit of the law.

Young Artists Exhibit
Museum of Young Art

Museum of Young Art
110 W. Fayette St., One Lincoln Center, Syracuse

Exhibit of work from students in the Baldwinsville School District.

Opening: La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 1
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A special program to commemorate Point of Contact's 35th anniversary and The Point of Contact Gallery's 5th -- a show of the entire permanent collection in five exhibitions starting in September 2010.

Exhibit 1: Works of Burt Barr, Papo Colo, Gregory Crewdson, Judy Pfaff, Rob Van Erve, Sandy Skoglund

Joan Lukas Rothenberg: A Retrospective
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Joan Lukas Rothenberg's art involvement began early in her life. As the director of the "Art Squad" at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, Joan was awarded the New York Society of Illustrators prize for her poster depicting the plight of children in poverty. She studied art at New York City's Cooper Union before earning her Master of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics from the University of Michigan and further study in drawing and printmaking at Royal University College in Stockholm.

In Syracuse, Joan was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women's consciousness-raising group which evolved into the Women's Information Center in 1972. She also founded and operated Auragyns, a women's art gallery. Joan was in the process of completing her PhD in Women's Studies at Syracuse University, studying images of women in the media, at the time of her death in 1990.

In celebration of Joan's spirit, tenacity, and vision, Red House will feature a series of group exhibitions promoting local, professional and student women artists. The retrospective will inaugurate this Emerging Women Artist series. The retrospective and the series are both made possible by a grant from the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 for more information or to schedule a viewing.

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Bill Viola: Two Women, 2008
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"Two Women" is part of an extended body of Bill Viola's work titled the Transfigurations series. Inspired by his interest in the Buddhist idea of death as a passage to rebirth, Viola has filmed actors drenched in water and consumed by fire. In Viola's slow-motion world, the viewer senses not only the destructive and violent power of the elements but their transformative and cathartic power as well. For "Two Women," the artist created a physical apparatus in his studio that allows the two actors to effortlessly pass through a wall of water. Viola is known for using a minimum of digital effects. The real time for this performance is only moments but the finished video is nine minutes long, allowing viewers time to savor the beauty of the moving water, light, and figures.

The Transfigurations series is often described as visceral. In his writing Viola states, "I want someone to have the experience that is engaging for their mind, but I also want something that is engaging and involving for their body."

Bill Viola: The Quintet of the Astonished, 2000
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"The Quintet of the Astonished" shows the unfolding expressions of five actors in such extreme slow motion that every minute detail of their changing facial expressions and movements can be detected. In this piece artist Bill Viola explores the cathartic power within grief, personal suffering, and bereavement.

Viola's work often exhibits a painterly quality and "The Quintet of the Astonished" clearly references his interests in medieval and classical depictions of emotion. In 1998, while a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute which that year explored the theme of The Passions, Viola revisited images of medieval and renaissance painting, frescoes, and architecture that had influenced him during his time in Florence, Italy in 1974. Having lost both of his parents by the time he was at the Getty, he found himself drawn to images of devotional art that continue to influence his art today.

The Social Design Project
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In celebration of the 'good designs' of Herman Miller and designers exhibiting in Designed to Scale, join us for an evening of social reality guaranteed to improve the well-being of all who attend! Enjoy a brief gallery talk by designer Cas Holman and use your artistic flair to build a collaborative tower of design! Wander through the exhibitions, nibble on hor d'oeuvres, enjoy some tunes and have a drink at the cash bar.

Peter Sellars, director
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free, but tickets required
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Sellars is known for his groundbreaking interpretations of classic works through which audiences are engaged in contemporary social and political issues. He has staged operas at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Netherlands Opera, Opéra National de Paris, the Salzburg Festival, San Francisco Opera and Santa Fe Opera, among others, establishing a reputation for bringing 20th-century and contemporary operas to the stage, including works by Olivier Messiaen, Paul Hindemith and György Ligeti.

Inspired by the compositions of Kaija Saariaho, Osvaldo Golijov and Tan Dun, Sellars has guided the creation of productions of their work that have expanded the repertoire of modern opera. He has been a driving force in the creation of many new works with longtime collaborator John Adams, including Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer, El Niño and Doctor Atomic.

Sellars has led several major arts festivals, including the 1990 and 1993 Los Angeles Festivals, the 2002 Adelaide Arts Festival in Australia and the 2003 Venice Biennale International Festival of Theatre in Italy. In 2006, he was artistic director of New Crowned Hope, a month-long festival in Vienna for which he invited international artists from diverse cultural backgrounds to create new work in the fields of music, theater, dance, film, the visual arts and architecture for the city of Vienna’s Mozart Year, celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth.

Sellars is a professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA and resident curator of the Telluride Film Festival. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Erasmus Prize, the Sundance Institute Risk-Takers Award and the Gish Prize. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Sellars' appearance is part of the yearlong Art and Civic Dialogue series that will explores the dynamic social relationship between artists and the communities in which they live.

Tickets are available at the Box Office in the Schine Student Center.

Heaven Report Jazz Ensemble
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Directly from San Juan, Puerto Rico, the jazz group Heaven Report will celebrate the Point of Contact Gallery's fall opening. Led by producer Ricky Encarnacion, Heaven Report includes guitar, bass and saxophone. The group flew in for the annual gala of the Spanish Action League this weekend, and decided to add this event to its itinerary.

Gala Opening Night
LeMoyne College
Featuring Carrie Manolakos, vocalist

Price: $20 (reservations recommended)
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Le Moyne College's music program presents their Gala Opening Night with vocalist and CNY native Carrie Manolakos. This will mark Manolakos' second appearance on the Le Moyne campus, having previously appeared in a concert version of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years. Manolakos will be joined by pianist Dominick Amendum, who currently serves as music director and conductor for the Broadway company of Wicked.

The evening will feature Broadway and pop favorites, as well as original songs composed by Manolakos. Following the concert, audience members are invited to join in a champagne toast and will have the opportunity to meet the artists, as well as participate in a silent auction. Proceeds from the evening will benefit the music program at Le Moyne College, facilitating the maintenance and purchase of instruments, music, and the presentation of events throughout the 2010-2011 school year.

Upon graduating from Manlius Pebble Hill School in 2002, Carrie Manolakos attended New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts. While attending NYU, Manolakos was cast in the touring production, and later in the Broadway company, of Mamma Mia!, the hit musical celebrating the music of ABBA. Most recently, she performed as the standby for Elphaba in the second national tour of Wicked.

Tickets may be purchased by calling 315-445-4523. Due to limited seating capacity, reservations are recommended.

The Heavy Pets, with Same Blood Folk Band and Lee Terrace
Westcott Theater

Price: $10
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

My Dead Lady
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $32.50 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive comedy/mystery dinner theater.

Professor Barry Biggins has a problem. Azalia Dimwittle has completely failed every attempt to elevate her from Cockney flower girl to aristocratic lady. She simply hasn’t gotten it, never will get it, and now everyone has just about had it. To make matters worse, she’s invited you and the rest of her conniving family over to the Professor's house for her father's birthday party. By George, I think she's going to get it (if she doesn't get them first).

Evening at the Museum
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $10 ($8 OHA members). Reservations required.
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In the spirit of Ghost Walk, on the third Thursday of each month, after regular business hours, pay a visit to the Onondaga Historical Association for Evening at the Museum. OHA has collected innumerable stories from Syracuse and Central New York for 150 years. Now you have the opportunity to explore our past in a fun and unique way. Accompany our knowledgeable night watchman to experience our exhibits in a new light and see who comes out of the woodwork to bring Salt City history to life. For reservations, phone 315-428-1864, ext. 370. Groups of 15 maximum.

Preview: Twelve Angry Men
CNY Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $10 suggestred donation
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. "He doesn't stand a chance," mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are taken into the bleak jury room. It looks like an open-and-shut case—until one of the jurors begins opening the others' eyes to the facts. "This is a remarkable thing about democracy," says the foreign-born juror, "that we are notified by mail to come down to this place—and decide on the guilt or innocence of a man; of a man we have not known before. We have nothing to gain or lose by our verdict. We should not make it a personal thing." But personal it does become, with each juror revealing his or her own character as the various testimonies are re-examined, the murder is re-enacted, and a new murder threat is born before their eyes! Tempers get short, arguments grow heated, and the jurors become 12 angry men. The jurors' final verdict and how they reach it—in tense scenes that will electrify you and keep you on the edge of your seat—add up to a fine, mature piece of dramatic literature, an experience you'll never forget.

Cast includes Tim Bennett, Jon Wilson, John Brackett, Lanny Freshman, Michael Shanahan, Matt Nilsen, Daniel Rowlands, Joseph Pierce, Stephen Brownell, Steve Rowlands, Navroz Dabu, David Vickers, Christopher Best.

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Elegy in Blue
Rarely Done Productions
Donna Stuccio, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Officer Celeste Luna wades through the fog of her day-to-day operations, tending to her urban beat while doggedly guarding her heart. A fateful convergence of four other lost souls in her territory leads to the unearthing of long-secreted information which threatens to reap catastrophic fallout. Will forgiveness or retribution win out? A world premiere, the play is the sequel to "Blue Moon". Written by Donna Stuccio.

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Friday, September 17, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Works by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore, and Charlie Wollowitz.

Anagama Nakama: 7 Anagama Potters
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Works by Marvin Bjurlin, Julie Crosby, Fred Herbst, Cary Joseph, Marc Peter Keane, Chris Longwell, and Momoko Takeshita.

OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

OCC Faculty Art Show is a collection of artworks in various mediums from about 20 art instructors. The work covers a broad range of genres including elements of representational, nonrepresentational and abstract art forms.

La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 1
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A special program to commemorate Point of Contact's 35th anniversary and The Point of Contact Gallery's 5th -- a show of the entire permanent collection in five exhibitions starting in September 2010.

Exhibit 1: Works of Burt Barr, Papo Colo, Gregory Crewdson, Judy Pfaff, Rob Van Erve, Sandy Skoglund

Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond" features the work of five SU faculty members -- Anne Cofer, Mary Giehl and Sarah Saulson (fiber arts/material studies) and Marion Dorfer and Eileen Gosson (surface pattern design).

Cofer, an installation artist, had her first museum solo exhibition "Concealed Objects" at the Everson Museum of Art in spring 2009 and a permanent site-specific project for SU's Hinds Hall installed in May. She has been published nationally in Ceramics Monthly and internationally in Ceramics Art and Perception. Her work has been pictured in the New York Times and was selected for “500 Ceramic Sculptures” (Lark, 2009).

Dorfer began her successful freelance business, MY Designs, after graduating from SU. From 1986-2004, she collaborated with her agent John Sacks of Jane-Albert Studios Inc. in New York City. Her speculative design work was exhibited and sold yearly at the studio as well as at the Surtex (New York City), Heimtextil (Germany) and Indigo (France) trade shows. Through Jane-Albert Studios and independent commissions, she has created designs for printed and woven textiles, wall covering, glass, ceramic products and paper products.

Giehl, who creates installations as well as two-dimensional work and sculpture, recently exhibited her work in group shows at Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art in Utica; ArtRage and Point of Contact Gallery in Syracuse; the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn; and Main Street Gallery in Groton. Her numerous community art projects include serving as guest curator for Syracuse's Lipe Art Park, where she is working to enhance the park's 600-foot fence by creating an abstract image of the Erie Canal using felt made from recycled plastic bottles.

Gosson's professional career began as a designer and colorist for Scalamandré Silks in New York City; she later worked as an assistant to Anne Marie de Samarjay, owner of Samarjay Associates, a surface pattern design agency in Manhattan. That position led to 20-plus years of freelance design experience for multiple product categories within industry. Her clients include Waverly, a division of F. Schumacher & Co.; Brewster Wallcovering Co.; Kenneth James line; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Lynn Hollyn Associates, the Smithsonian Institution; Warner Wallcovering; Western Textile Co.; and Brunschwig & Fils.

Saulson is a professional handweaver and workshop leader with an interest in ethnic textiles and processes. She served on the board of Weave a Real Peace, an organization that serves as a catalyst for improving the quality of life of weavers and textile artisans in communities-in-need, and she has taught dyeing and weaving in Ghana, where she also conducted a research project on craft cooperatives for SERRV International, a nonprofit, fair trade organization. She recently exhibited her work at Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts.

Honoring The Masters: Works of Ann Milner and Phil DeMocker
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

"Honoring the Masters," featuring Ann Milner's oriental brush painting and Phil DeMocker's origami, is a tribute to artists of the past setting the standards for today's active artists and gallery goers. Highlighted will be "masters" from noted dynasties. The "Mustard Seed Garden Manual, first published in the mid-1600s, will be the reference for some techniques in both learning and creating pieces of Oriental brush painting. Reproductions of work from ancient and more recent masters will show the background and heritage next to current representations of classical subjects and composition.

Origami pieces will represent Phil's favorite designer/folders and will be labeled to explain why he has chosen those artists.

As with most art, copying the work of an established artist is considered distasteful and cheap. While the art of the Orient to copy a master is considered one highest forms of art. Ann Milner is painting in the Sumie style from the Mustard Seed Manual, a comprehensive work of style, structure and form. Phil DeMocker is working from the works of both past and present masters of origami.

Expressions in Paint
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception 6:00-8:00 pm.

Nikolay Mikushkin: impressionistic traditional landscape and floral oil paintings on canvas
Bobbi Lamb: ceramics finished in a painterly fashion

84th Annual Juried Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

Objects & Atmospheres
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Nathan Sullivan: Paintings and lithographs
Joshua Primmer: Stoneware vessels
Brenda Edwards: Paintings and drawings

Sullivan's oil on panel "Form Series" are masterfully painted, Vermeer-like in their surface quality. His images of suspended or floating tiny organic objects such as seeds are rendered to large scale in chiaroscuro, resulting in their otherworldly presence.

Primmer is exhibiting his intimately scaled stoneware objects and vessels. While one may consider the relatively small scale of his work, it possesses a monumentality usually restricted to large scale work and architecture.

Edwards' depictions in her soft focus drawings and paintings range from sultry atmospheres to luminous mists. They are moments that catch the play of light in their respective environments.

Joan Lukas Rothenberg: A Retrospective
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Joan Lukas Rothenberg's art involvement began early in her life. As the director of the "Art Squad" at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, Joan was awarded the New York Society of Illustrators prize for her poster depicting the plight of children in poverty. She studied art at New York City's Cooper Union before earning her Master of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics from the University of Michigan and further study in drawing and printmaking at Royal University College in Stockholm.

In Syracuse, Joan was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women's consciousness-raising group which evolved into the Women's Information Center in 1972. She also founded and operated Auragyns, a women's art gallery. Joan was in the process of completing her PhD in Women's Studies at Syracuse University, studying images of women in the media, at the time of her death in 1990.

In celebration of Joan's spirit, tenacity, and vision, Red House will feature a series of group exhibitions promoting local, professional and student women artists. The retrospective will inaugurate this Emerging Women Artist series. The retrospective and the series are both made possible by a grant from the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 for more information or to schedule a viewing.

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4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available, the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

Read a Review!

Monumental Printstallations
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Large-scale works created by artists at Lake Effect Editions, the press of the printmaking program at Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, are the subject of this exhibition. The show features the work of student, faculty, and visiting artists, including Nicholaus Arnold, Marco Camacho, Susan Edmunds, John Hancock, Dusty Herbig, Neil Hueber, Eric Johanni, Rich Kim, Kristen Leonard, and Sam Tobias.

Works of Cui Fei
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Born in Jinan, China, Cui received her BFA degree in painting from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China (now China National Academy of Fine Arts) in 1993, and her MFA degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Nature is a recurring theme in Cui's work; an artist mainly known for her abstract Chinese calligraphy and related installations using twigs or thorns. For this exhibit, she will create works on paper using thorns and an installation consisting of salt, as a reference to Syracuse's history. Her work comments on the central role of nature, her Chinese origins, and current practices in the West. The vault will display a healing piece using sand referring to the tradition of sand paintings by Native Americans, Tibetan monks, Indians, Australian Aborigines, and Latin Americans. Though widely exhibited, this is Cui's first solo museum exhibition.

Read a review!

Holding Phenomenae and Object Transitions
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

Photographs and assemblages by Sarah Averill.

Americans Who Tell the Truth: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A collection of portraits intended to remind people of the dignity, courage and importance of some of America's truth tellers. Each portrait includes a moving quote by the subject, and a biography is displayed with each painting. One lesson to be learned from all of these Americans is that the greatness of our country frequently depends not on the letter of the law, but the insistence of a single person that we adhere to the spirit of the law.

Bill Viola: The Quintet of the Astonished, 2000
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"The Quintet of the Astonished" shows the unfolding expressions of five actors in such extreme slow motion that every minute detail of their changing facial expressions and movements can be detected. In this piece artist Bill Viola explores the cathartic power within grief, personal suffering, and bereavement.

Viola's work often exhibits a painterly quality and "The Quintet of the Astonished" clearly references his interests in medieval and classical depictions of emotion. In 1998, while a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute which that year explored the theme of The Passions, Viola revisited images of medieval and renaissance painting, frescoes, and architecture that had influenced him during his time in Florence, Italy in 1974. Having lost both of his parents by the time he was at the Getty, he found himself drawn to images of devotional art that continue to influence his art today.

Bill Viola: Two Women, 2008
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"Two Women" is part of an extended body of Bill Viola's work titled the Transfigurations series. Inspired by his interest in the Buddhist idea of death as a passage to rebirth, Viola has filmed actors drenched in water and consumed by fire. In Viola's slow-motion world, the viewer senses not only the destructive and violent power of the elements but their transformative and cathartic power as well. For "Two Women," the artist created a physical apparatus in his studio that allows the two actors to effortlessly pass through a wall of water. Viola is known for using a minimum of digital effects. The real time for this performance is only moments but the finished video is nine minutes long, allowing viewers time to savor the beauty of the moving water, light, and figures.

The Transfigurations series is often described as visceral. In his writing Viola states, "I want someone to have the experience that is engaging for their mind, but I also want something that is engaging and involving for their body."

DFtA at the Palace
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: $12
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Audience-interactive improv comedy with some of Syracuse's finest comedic actors.

Satan's Lemonade
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $10 adults, $8 students
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

High-energy long-form improv with the SCiT house team.

Festa Italiana

Price: Free
Washington St. (in front of City Hall)
Syracuse

4:00 pm: Jimmy Cavallo, with Chuck Sgroi, John LaTocha, Tony Licamele, Dave Solazzo and Jim Nestico
6:00 pm: La Banda Rossa
8:00 pm: Rinaldo Toglia, with singing sensation Claudia and accordion virtuoso Dominick
9:30 pm: Atlas, George Feltman

For more information, visit festaitaliana.bizland.com.

Unsolved Mysteries of the Salt City Ghost Walk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $12
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA's fall Ghost Walk will feature the distinctive industrial architecture of the early 20th century and forgotten stories of our past. Tours leave every 15 minutes. For more information, phone 315-428-1864 ext. 360.

Music by Pulitzer Prize Winners
Onondaga Community College
Society for New Music

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The program features music by five Pulitzer Prize-winning composers: Karel Husa, Aaron Kernis, Steve Stucky, Melinda Wagner, and Richard Wernick.

Performers are the Society All-Stars: Steven Heyman, piano; David LeDoux, cello; John Friedrichs, clarinet; Rob Bridge, percussion; Amy Heyman, piano; and Patricia DeAngelis, piano.

The Big Break: Round One
Westcott Theater
Featuring The Black Lockets, Every Last Breath, A Cry to the Blind, and more

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Come support local bands!

Les Sampou
Folkus Project

May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Central New Yorkers may remember Boston-based blues rocker Les Sampou from her appearance at last fall's Golden Harvest Festival at Beaver Lake Nature Center. Sampou will arrive in support of a new CD, "Lonesomeville," featuring her trademark bluesy soul with country twang and down-to-earth storytelling. With a powerfully expressive voice that can be every bit as stinging or sultry as her slide guitar, Sampou is a passionate performer. An insightful songwriter, she packs lots of heartache, hard nights and a hint of redemption into her songs about love gone wrong, hard goodbyes, and honky tonk heartbreak. She switches easily from deep blues, to upbeat pop-influenced song, warm ballads and soul-tinged country tunes. Depending on the song, she can be tough, sweet, graceful or gritty.

Dez Cordas
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Craig Butterfield, double bass; Matthew Slotkin, guitar

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Dez Cordas is an unusual duo featuring Craig Butterfield, double bass, and Matthew Slotkin, guitar. They perform an eclectic mix of musical styles from tango to jazz to baroque. Selections will be drawn from work by Piazzolla, Beaser, Goodwin, Slavens, Kalus, Seiber, de Falla, and Bartok.

Free parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

Parade
Appleseed Productions
Deborah Pearson and Meghan Pearson, director

Price: $20 regular; $17 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

In 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-born Jew living in Georgia, is put on trial for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory worker under his employ. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a sensationalist publisher and a janitor's false testimony seal Leo's fate. His only defenders are a governor with a conscience, and, eventually, his assimilated Southern wife who finds the strength and love to become his greatest champion. Based on a true story.

Book by Alfred Uhry, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, music directed by Dan Williams, choreographed by Jennifer Pearson.

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Elegy in Blue
Rarely Done Productions
Donna Stuccio, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Officer Celeste Luna wades through the fog of her day-to-day operations, tending to her urban beat while doggedly guarding her heart. A fateful convergence of four other lost souls in her territory leads to the unearthing of long-secreted information which threatens to reap catastrophic fallout. Will forgiveness or retribution win out? A world premiere, the play is the sequel to "Blue Moon". Written by Donna Stuccio.

Read a Review!

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Anagama Nakama: 7 Anagama Potters
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Works by Marvin Bjurlin, Julie Crosby, Fred Herbst, Cary Joseph, Marc Peter Keane, Chris Longwell, and Momoko Takeshita.

Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Works by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore, and Charlie Wollowitz.

84th Annual Juried Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Newly Discovered Paintings by Fred Fisher
Brian's Art Gallery

Brian's Art Gallery
201 Wolf St. (former Keybank building), Syracuse

Newly discovered paintings by Camillus artist Fred F. Fisher (1922-2008), in styles ranging from abstract to impressionism, including many local landscapes.

Holding Phenomenae and Object Transitions
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

Photographs and assemblages by Sarah Averill.

Expressions in Paint
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Nikolay Mikushkin: impressionistic traditional landscape and floral oil paintings on canvas
Bobbi Lamb: ceramics finished in a painterly fashion

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

Read a Review!

Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

Objects & Atmospheres
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Nathan Sullivan: Paintings and lithographs
Joshua Primmer: Stoneware vessels
Brenda Edwards: Paintings and drawings

Sullivan's oil on panel "Form Series" are masterfully painted, Vermeer-like in their surface quality. His images of suspended or floating tiny organic objects such as seeds are rendered to large scale in chiaroscuro, resulting in their otherworldly presence.

Primmer is exhibiting his intimately scaled stoneware objects and vessels. While one may consider the relatively small scale of his work, it possesses a monumentality usually restricted to large scale work and architecture.

Edwards' depictions in her soft focus drawings and paintings range from sultry atmospheres to luminous mists. They are moments that catch the play of light in their respective environments.

4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available, the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Americans Who Tell the Truth: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A collection of portraits intended to remind people of the dignity, courage and importance of some of America's truth tellers. Each portrait includes a moving quote by the subject, and a biography is displayed with each painting. One lesson to be learned from all of these Americans is that the greatness of our country frequently depends not on the letter of the law, but the insistence of a single person that we adhere to the spirit of the law.

Monumental Printstallations
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Large-scale works created by artists at Lake Effect Editions, the press of the printmaking program at Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, are the subject of this exhibition. The show features the work of student, faculty, and visiting artists, including Nicholaus Arnold, Marco Camacho, Susan Edmunds, John Hancock, Dusty Herbig, Neil Hueber, Eric Johanni, Rich Kim, Kristen Leonard, and Sam Tobias.

Works of Cui Fei
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Born in Jinan, China, Cui received her BFA degree in painting from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China (now China National Academy of Fine Arts) in 1993, and her MFA degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Nature is a recurring theme in Cui's work; an artist mainly known for her abstract Chinese calligraphy and related installations using twigs or thorns. For this exhibit, she will create works on paper using thorns and an installation consisting of salt, as a reference to Syracuse's history. Her work comments on the central role of nature, her Chinese origins, and current practices in the West. The vault will display a healing piece using sand referring to the tradition of sand paintings by Native Americans, Tibetan monks, Indians, Australian Aborigines, and Latin Americans. Though widely exhibited, this is Cui's first solo museum exhibition.

Read a review!

Bill Viola: The Quintet of the Astonished, 2000
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"The Quintet of the Astonished" shows the unfolding expressions of five actors in such extreme slow motion that every minute detail of their changing facial expressions and movements can be detected. In this piece artist Bill Viola explores the cathartic power within grief, personal suffering, and bereavement.

Viola's work often exhibits a painterly quality and "The Quintet of the Astonished" clearly references his interests in medieval and classical depictions of emotion. In 1998, while a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute which that year explored the theme of The Passions, Viola revisited images of medieval and renaissance painting, frescoes, and architecture that had influenced him during his time in Florence, Italy in 1974. Having lost both of his parents by the time he was at the Getty, he found himself drawn to images of devotional art that continue to influence his art today.

Bill Viola: Two Women, 2008
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"Two Women" is part of an extended body of Bill Viola's work titled the Transfigurations series. Inspired by his interest in the Buddhist idea of death as a passage to rebirth, Viola has filmed actors drenched in water and consumed by fire. In Viola's slow-motion world, the viewer senses not only the destructive and violent power of the elements but their transformative and cathartic power as well. For "Two Women," the artist created a physical apparatus in his studio that allows the two actors to effortlessly pass through a wall of water. Viola is known for using a minimum of digital effects. The real time for this performance is only moments but the finished video is nine minutes long, allowing viewers time to savor the beauty of the moving water, light, and figures.

The Transfigurations series is often described as visceral. In his writing Viola states, "I want someone to have the experience that is engaging for their mind, but I also want something that is engaging and involving for their body."

Festa Italiana

Price: Free
Washington St. (in front of City Hall)
Syracuse

2:00 pm: Augie Collacchi
3:15 pm: Dance Centre North, Cathy Mucci
4:30 pm: Bill Ali with Kathy Santangelo, accompanist
6:00 pm: Jimmy Cavallo
8:00 pm: Rinaldo Toglia with singing sensation Claudia and accordion virtuoso Dominic
9:00 pm: Prime Time, Paul Valentino

For more information, visit festaitaliana.bizland.com.

SaturdaySCREENINGS: Jean-Michel Basquiat -- The Radiant Child (2009)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: $5 suggested donation
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Stunning documentary shows Basquiats' rise from graffiti writer to famed African-American artist and international cult icon, his constant battle between talent and race and his tragic demise. Basquiat's own words and work reveal the mystique of the artist and man. Directed by Tamra Davis.

An Idea in Transition
Everson Museum of Art
Featuring Wendell Castle

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Join us for a talk by Wendell Castle, an American furniture artist whose work is featured in Designed to Scale. He is often credited with being the father of the art furniture movement. A long record of acclaim, scholarship, and steady acquisition by public institutions gives Wendell Castle's work indelible historic importance. His groundbreaking unification of sculpture and furniture galvanized generations of artists and designers and contributed to the acceptance of design as an art form in its own right.

Unsolved Mysteries of the Salt City Ghost Walk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $12
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA's fall Ghost Walk will feature the distinctive industrial architecture of the early 20th century and forgotten stories of our past. Tours leave every 15 minutes. For more information, phone 315-428-1864 ext. 360.

Tipp Hill Music Fest

Price: Free
Pass Arboretum
Tompkins St., Syracuse

Nearly 20 musical acts, local food and craft vendors.

Rain location: Burnet Park Ice Rink Pavilion.

For more information, phone 315-481-6243.

Tipp Hill Music Fest

Price: Free
Pass Arboretum
Tompkins St., Syracuse

Syracuse Parks & Rec Stage
12:10 pm: Independent Louis
1:50 pm: Mere Mortals
3:50 pm: Sirsy
4:40 pm: Legacy Award
6:00 pm: Fritz's Polka Band

Sugarman Stage
1:05 pm: CD Artist Showcase
2:45 pm: The Z-Bones
3:35 pm: Raffles
4:45 pm: Turnip Stampede
5:45 pm: Raffles
7:00 pm: Final Jam

Geddes Federal Stage:
12:35 pm: Tom Dooley Choraliers
1:05 pm: Frank & Burns
2:05 pm: Tim Herron
3:20 pm: Dusty Pascal
4:10 pm: Mark Zane & Steve Pederson
4:40 pm: The Tipp Hillbillies

Brilbeck's/Orguru's Stage
1:40 pm: Ted Yandeau
2:50 pm: Quigsy & The Bird

Harp Recital
Featuring Heidi Gorton

Price: $10 regular, $5 students/seniors
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Gorton is the American Harp Society National Competition Young Professional Award Winner.

Colleen Kattau and Some Guys (Chris Merkley and Steve Morgan)
Kellish Hill Farm

Price: $10
Kellish Hill Farm
3192 Pompey Center Rd., Pompey

Colleen Kattau's songs take you to places you love to visit.

SubCat Studios presents Merrill Amos
Redhouse

Price: $5
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Parade
Appleseed Productions
Deborah Pearson and Meghan Pearson, director

Price: $20 regular; $17 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

In 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-born Jew living in Georgia, is put on trial for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory worker under his employ. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a sensationalist publisher and a janitor's false testimony seal Leo's fate. His only defenders are a governor with a conscience, and, eventually, his assimilated Southern wife who finds the strength and love to become his greatest champion. Based on a true story.

Book by Alfred Uhry, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, music directed by Dan Williams, choreographed by Jennifer Pearson.

Read a Review!

Elegy in Blue
Rarely Done Productions
Donna Stuccio, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Officer Celeste Luna wades through the fog of her day-to-day operations, tending to her urban beat while doggedly guarding her heart. A fateful convergence of four other lost souls in her territory leads to the unearthing of long-secreted information which threatens to reap catastrophic fallout. Will forgiveness or retribution win out? A world premiere, the play is the sequel to "Blue Moon". Written by Donna Stuccio.

Read a Review!

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available, the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Newly Discovered Paintings by Fred Fisher
Brian's Art Gallery

Brian's Art Gallery
201 Wolf St. (former Keybank building), Syracuse

Newly discovered paintings by Camillus artist Fred F. Fisher (1922-2008), in styles ranging from abstract to impressionism, including many local landscapes.

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

Read a Review!

Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Works by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore, and Charlie Wollowitz.

Monumental Printstallations
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Large-scale works created by artists at Lake Effect Editions, the press of the printmaking program at Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, are the subject of this exhibition. The show features the work of student, faculty, and visiting artists, including Nicholaus Arnold, Marco Camacho, Susan Edmunds, John Hancock, Dusty Herbig, Neil Hueber, Eric Johanni, Rich Kim, Kristen Leonard, and Sam Tobias.

84th Annual Juried Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

There will be a reception 2:00-4:00 pm.

Bill Viola: Two Women, 2008
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"Two Women" is part of an extended body of Bill Viola's work titled the Transfigurations series. Inspired by his interest in the Buddhist idea of death as a passage to rebirth, Viola has filmed actors drenched in water and consumed by fire. In Viola's slow-motion world, the viewer senses not only the destructive and violent power of the elements but their transformative and cathartic power as well. For "Two Women," the artist created a physical apparatus in his studio that allows the two actors to effortlessly pass through a wall of water. Viola is known for using a minimum of digital effects. The real time for this performance is only moments but the finished video is nine minutes long, allowing viewers time to savor the beauty of the moving water, light, and figures.

The Transfigurations series is often described as visceral. In his writing Viola states, "I want someone to have the experience that is engaging for their mind, but I also want something that is engaging and involving for their body."

Bill Viola: The Quintet of the Astonished, 2000
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"The Quintet of the Astonished" shows the unfolding expressions of five actors in such extreme slow motion that every minute detail of their changing facial expressions and movements can be detected. In this piece artist Bill Viola explores the cathartic power within grief, personal suffering, and bereavement.

Viola's work often exhibits a painterly quality and "The Quintet of the Astonished" clearly references his interests in medieval and classical depictions of emotion. In 1998, while a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute which that year explored the theme of The Passions, Viola revisited images of medieval and renaissance painting, frescoes, and architecture that had influenced him during his time in Florence, Italy in 1974. Having lost both of his parents by the time he was at the Getty, he found himself drawn to images of devotional art that continue to influence his art today.

Festa Italiana

Price: Free
Washington St. (in front of City Hall)
Syracuse

1:30 pm: Mickey Vendetti Band
2:45 pm: Jonathan Howell, with Ted Davenport, accompanist
3:45 pm: Letizia & The "Z" Band
5:15 pm: Jimmy Cavallo

For more information, visit festaitaliana.bizland.com.

Westcott Street Cultural Fair

Price: Free
500 Block of Westcott St.
Syracuse

Famous for its community spirit and energy, the Fair creates one of Westcott Street's busiest days of the year, drawing thousands of attendees. Festivities begin at 12:00 noon at the junction of Westcott and Euclid with a funky Parade down Westcott Street.

The Fair's mission is to promote a strong sense of community among the diverse people who live and work in the Westcott neighborhood and to increase awareness of the attractiveness and viability of Westcott as a great place to work, shop, socialize and play.

Main Stage
1:00-2:00 pm: Sophistafunk
2:30-3:30 pm: Joe Driscoll
4:00-5:00 pm: Evan Knight
5:30-6:30 pm: The Blacklites

Multicultural Stage
12:30-1:15 pm: Kambuyu
1:45-2:30 pm: Klezmercuse
3:00-3:45 pm: Riddimwise
4:15-5:00 pm: Adanfo
5:30-6:15 pm: Mutron Warriors

Common Threads Stage
12:00-1:00 pm: Northbound Traveling Minstrel Jug Band
1:15-1:45 pm: Butternut Creek
2:00-2:30 pm: Hondo Mesa & Midnight Mike
2:45-3:15 pm: Nick Piccininni
3:30-4:15 pm: Salt City Ramblers
4:30-5:15 pm: Larry Hoyt & the Good Acoustics
5:30-6:15 pm: Joanne Perry & the Unstoppables

Kids Korner Stage
12:30-1:00 pm: Savannah
1:15-1:45 pm: Tom Knight & Puppets
2:00-2:30 pm: Mary Hageman Yoga for Kids
2:45-3:15 pm: Tom Knight & Puppets
3:30-4:00 pm: Vanessa Johnson
4:10-4:45 pm: Twin Magicians
5:00-5:45 pm: Don’t Feed the Actors Improv Troupe
6:00-6:30 pm: Colleen Kattau

Westcott Rocks Stage
12:45-1:45 pm: Joy Telepathy Project
2:15-3:15 pm: Earth Jam
3:45-4:45 pm: Solstice
5:15-6:15 pm: House On A Spring

Harvard Dance Stage
12:30-1:00 pm: Parents Promoting Dance
1:05-1:35 pm: Basset Street Hounds/Morris Dancers
1:40-2:10 pm: Media Unit: Tribute to Michael Jackson
2:15-2:45 pm: Dance Lovers of CNY Swing and Hustle
2:50-3:20 pm: Butler School of Irish Dance
3:25-3:55 pm: Congolese Dancers
4:00-4:30 pm: La Familia de la Salsa
4:45-6:30 pm: Wacheva: African dancing and drumming, Samba, Kazoon Afro-Modern, NYC-Style Salsa, open drum circle

Saba Bellydance Stage
12:30 pm: Community Choir
1:00 pm: Tessa Myers, Fariha Zajal & Mirage, Naja, Omorose Raks
2:00 pm: Meaghan Scully, Maya Tribe, Lynn Lizzi Re Belly Ous
3:00 pm: Full Moon Hip Stars, Kalilah, Desert Rhythms, Katina, Holly Rice Duet, Amirah
4:00 pm: My Fusion Flow, Fariha and Jenina, Adi Shakti, Sheba, Shanti Irie, Holly Rice
5:00 pm: Sheelagh, Silent Rhythm, Hips With Attitude, The Scintillating Cerebellyum Dance

Motto Musicale: September Trio
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

Two vocalists with piano accompaniment.

Organ Recital
Featuring Derrick Meador

Price: Free
University United Methodist Church
1085 E. Genesee St. (corner of University Ave.), Syracuse

Sacred and secular works by Bach, Sweelinck, and Couper.

Robert Auler, piano; Tigran Vardanyan, violin
Joyful Noise Concert Series

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Liverpool First United Methodist Church
604 Oswego St., Liverpool

The I-90 Collective, Baroque Chamber Music Ensemble
Malmgren Concert Series

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The I-90 Collective is quickly establishing itself as one the Northwest's premier chamber ensembles. With a repertoire extending from the very dawn of the baroque era to the works of Bach and Boccherini, the I-90 Collective's fresh, improvisatory style blends the virtuosity of violin and cello with the intimacy of voice and lute. Founded in 2009 on the interstate highway that links Seattle and Bozeman, MT, the Collective is comprised of four of America's busiest baroque soloists, performing extensively across the country and abroad, and with many of America's leading period-instrument ensembles, including the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, New Trinity Baroque, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Pacific Baroque Orchestra and Magnolia Baroque. This program will feature music by Handel, Bach and Boccherini.

Parade
Appleseed Productions
Deborah Pearson and Meghan Pearson, director

Price: $20 regular; $17 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

In 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-born Jew living in Georgia, is put on trial for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory worker under his employ. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a sensationalist publisher and a janitor's false testimony seal Leo's fate. His only defenders are a governor with a conscience, and, eventually, his assimilated Southern wife who finds the strength and love to become his greatest champion. Based on a true story.

Book by Alfred Uhry, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, music directed by Dan Williams, choreographed by Jennifer Pearson.

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Monday, September 20, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Works by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore, and Charlie Wollowitz.

OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

OCC Faculty Art Show is a collection of artworks in various mediums from about 20 art instructors. The work covers a broad range of genres including elements of representational, nonrepresentational and abstract art forms.

La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 1
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A special program to commemorate Point of Contact's 35th anniversary and The Point of Contact Gallery's 5th -- a show of the entire permanent collection in five exhibitions starting in September 2010.

Exhibit 1: Works of Burt Barr, Papo Colo, Gregory Crewdson, Judy Pfaff, Rob Van Erve, Sandy Skoglund

Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond" features the work of five SU faculty members -- Anne Cofer, Mary Giehl and Sarah Saulson (fiber arts/material studies) and Marion Dorfer and Eileen Gosson (surface pattern design).

Cofer, an installation artist, had her first museum solo exhibition "Concealed Objects" at the Everson Museum of Art in spring 2009 and a permanent site-specific project for SU's Hinds Hall installed in May. She has been published nationally in Ceramics Monthly and internationally in Ceramics Art and Perception. Her work has been pictured in the New York Times and was selected for “500 Ceramic Sculptures” (Lark, 2009).

Dorfer began her successful freelance business, MY Designs, after graduating from SU. From 1986-2004, she collaborated with her agent John Sacks of Jane-Albert Studios Inc. in New York City. Her speculative design work was exhibited and sold yearly at the studio as well as at the Surtex (New York City), Heimtextil (Germany) and Indigo (France) trade shows. Through Jane-Albert Studios and independent commissions, she has created designs for printed and woven textiles, wall covering, glass, ceramic products and paper products.

Giehl, who creates installations as well as two-dimensional work and sculpture, recently exhibited her work in group shows at Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art in Utica; ArtRage and Point of Contact Gallery in Syracuse; the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn; and Main Street Gallery in Groton. Her numerous community art projects include serving as guest curator for Syracuse's Lipe Art Park, where she is working to enhance the park's 600-foot fence by creating an abstract image of the Erie Canal using felt made from recycled plastic bottles.

Gosson's professional career began as a designer and colorist for Scalamandré Silks in New York City; she later worked as an assistant to Anne Marie de Samarjay, owner of Samarjay Associates, a surface pattern design agency in Manhattan. That position led to 20-plus years of freelance design experience for multiple product categories within industry. Her clients include Waverly, a division of F. Schumacher & Co.; Brewster Wallcovering Co.; Kenneth James line; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Lynn Hollyn Associates, the Smithsonian Institution; Warner Wallcovering; Western Textile Co.; and Brunschwig & Fils.

Saulson is a professional handweaver and workshop leader with an interest in ethnic textiles and processes. She served on the board of Weave a Real Peace, an organization that serves as a catalyst for improving the quality of life of weavers and textile artisans in communities-in-need, and she has taught dyeing and weaving in Ghana, where she also conducted a research project on craft cooperatives for SERRV International, a nonprofit, fair trade organization. She recently exhibited her work at Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts.

Honoring The Masters: Works of Ann Milner and Phil DeMocker
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

"Honoring the Masters," featuring Ann Milner's oriental brush painting and Phil DeMocker's origami, is a tribute to artists of the past setting the standards for today's active artists and gallery goers. Highlighted will be "masters" from noted dynasties. The "Mustard Seed Garden Manual, first published in the mid-1600s, will be the reference for some techniques in both learning and creating pieces of Oriental brush painting. Reproductions of work from ancient and more recent masters will show the background and heritage next to current representations of classical subjects and composition.

Origami pieces will represent Phil's favorite designer/folders and will be labeled to explain why he has chosen those artists.

As with most art, copying the work of an established artist is considered distasteful and cheap. While the art of the Orient to copy a master is considered one highest forms of art. Ann Milner is painting in the Sumie style from the Mustard Seed Manual, a comprehensive work of style, structure and form. Phil DeMocker is working from the works of both past and present masters of origami.

84th Annual Juried Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

Objects & Atmospheres
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Nathan Sullivan: Paintings and lithographs
Joshua Primmer: Stoneware vessels
Brenda Edwards: Paintings and drawings

Sullivan's oil on panel "Form Series" are masterfully painted, Vermeer-like in their surface quality. His images of suspended or floating tiny organic objects such as seeds are rendered to large scale in chiaroscuro, resulting in their otherworldly presence.

Primmer is exhibiting his intimately scaled stoneware objects and vessels. While one may consider the relatively small scale of his work, it possesses a monumentality usually restricted to large scale work and architecture.

Edwards' depictions in her soft focus drawings and paintings range from sultry atmospheres to luminous mists. They are moments that catch the play of light in their respective environments.

Joan Lukas Rothenberg: A Retrospective
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Joan Lukas Rothenberg's art involvement began early in her life. As the director of the "Art Squad" at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, Joan was awarded the New York Society of Illustrators prize for her poster depicting the plight of children in poverty. She studied art at New York City's Cooper Union before earning her Master of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics from the University of Michigan and further study in drawing and printmaking at Royal University College in Stockholm.

In Syracuse, Joan was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women's consciousness-raising group which evolved into the Women's Information Center in 1972. She also founded and operated Auragyns, a women's art gallery. Joan was in the process of completing her PhD in Women's Studies at Syracuse University, studying images of women in the media, at the time of her death in 1990.

In celebration of Joan's spirit, tenacity, and vision, Red House will feature a series of group exhibitions promoting local, professional and student women artists. The retrospective will inaugurate this Emerging Women Artist series. The retrospective and the series are both made possible by a grant from the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 for more information or to schedule a viewing.

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American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Jewish-American Professor Norman Finkelstein vocalizes his criticism of Israeli policy and his views about what he refers to as the "Holocaust industry" in this documentary from filmmakers Nicolas Rossier and David Ridgen. The son of a Holocaust survivor, Finkelstein makes the controversial claim that the state of Israel uses anti-Semitism as a justification for committing war crimes, and that this troubling trend can be traced back to the Jewish state's invasion of Lebanon in 1982. The film also takes the time to show how Professor Finkelstein's claims have landed him in the hot spot more than a few times, and resulted in the termination of his position at two prominent universities.

Called a lunatic and a disgusting self-hating Jew by some and an inspirational street-fighting revolutionary by others, Finkelstein—ardent critic of U.S. and Israeli Mid-East policy and author of five provocative books—is a deeply polarizing figure. From Beirut to Kyoto, American Radical follows Finkelstein around the world, providing an intimate portrait of the man behind the controversy as he attempts to negotiate a voice among supporters and critics alike. Runtime: 1 hr. 24 min.

Starring: Norman Finkelstein, Musa Abu-Hashhash, Nidal Barham, Noam Chomsky, Alan M. Dershowitz, Richard Finkelstein, Raul Hilberg, David Olesker, John Mearsheimer, Len Rudner, Avi Shlaim, Maxine Tsvaigrach

A discussion will follow the film.

The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Director: Sidney Salkow. Cast includes Warren William, Eric Blore, June Storey, Henry Wilcoxon, Thurston Hall. The Lone Wolf (William) uncovers a counterfeiting ring while trying to prove his innocence on a murder charge. Considered to be one of the best entries in the series.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Works by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore, and Charlie Wollowitz.

Anagama Nakama: 7 Anagama Potters
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Works by Marvin Bjurlin, Julie Crosby, Fred Herbst, Cary Joseph, Marc Peter Keane, Chris Longwell, and Momoko Takeshita.

OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

OCC Faculty Art Show is a collection of artworks in various mediums from about 20 art instructors. The work covers a broad range of genres including elements of representational, nonrepresentational and abstract art forms.

Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond" features the work of five SU faculty members -- Anne Cofer, Mary Giehl and Sarah Saulson (fiber arts/material studies) and Marion Dorfer and Eileen Gosson (surface pattern design).

Cofer, an installation artist, had her first museum solo exhibition "Concealed Objects" at the Everson Museum of Art in spring 2009 and a permanent site-specific project for SU's Hinds Hall installed in May. She has been published nationally in Ceramics Monthly and internationally in Ceramics Art and Perception. Her work has been pictured in the New York Times and was selected for “500 Ceramic Sculptures” (Lark, 2009).

Dorfer began her successful freelance business, MY Designs, after graduating from SU. From 1986-2004, she collaborated with her agent John Sacks of Jane-Albert Studios Inc. in New York City. Her speculative design work was exhibited and sold yearly at the studio as well as at the Surtex (New York City), Heimtextil (Germany) and Indigo (France) trade shows. Through Jane-Albert Studios and independent commissions, she has created designs for printed and woven textiles, wall covering, glass, ceramic products and paper products.

Giehl, who creates installations as well as two-dimensional work and sculpture, recently exhibited her work in group shows at Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art in Utica; ArtRage and Point of Contact Gallery in Syracuse; the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn; and Main Street Gallery in Groton. Her numerous community art projects include serving as guest curator for Syracuse's Lipe Art Park, where she is working to enhance the park's 600-foot fence by creating an abstract image of the Erie Canal using felt made from recycled plastic bottles.

Gosson's professional career began as a designer and colorist for Scalamandré Silks in New York City; she later worked as an assistant to Anne Marie de Samarjay, owner of Samarjay Associates, a surface pattern design agency in Manhattan. That position led to 20-plus years of freelance design experience for multiple product categories within industry. Her clients include Waverly, a division of F. Schumacher & Co.; Brewster Wallcovering Co.; Kenneth James line; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Lynn Hollyn Associates, the Smithsonian Institution; Warner Wallcovering; Western Textile Co.; and Brunschwig & Fils.

Saulson is a professional handweaver and workshop leader with an interest in ethnic textiles and processes. She served on the board of Weave a Real Peace, an organization that serves as a catalyst for improving the quality of life of weavers and textile artisans in communities-in-need, and she has taught dyeing and weaving in Ghana, where she also conducted a research project on craft cooperatives for SERRV International, a nonprofit, fair trade organization. She recently exhibited her work at Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts.

Honoring The Masters: Works of Ann Milner and Phil DeMocker
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

"Honoring the Masters," featuring Ann Milner's oriental brush painting and Phil DeMocker's origami, is a tribute to artists of the past setting the standards for today's active artists and gallery goers. Highlighted will be "masters" from noted dynasties. The "Mustard Seed Garden Manual, first published in the mid-1600s, will be the reference for some techniques in both learning and creating pieces of Oriental brush painting. Reproductions of work from ancient and more recent masters will show the background and heritage next to current representations of classical subjects and composition.

Origami pieces will represent Phil's favorite designer/folders and will be labeled to explain why he has chosen those artists.

As with most art, copying the work of an established artist is considered distasteful and cheap. While the art of the Orient to copy a master is considered one highest forms of art. Ann Milner is painting in the Sumie style from the Mustard Seed Manual, a comprehensive work of style, structure and form. Phil DeMocker is working from the works of both past and present masters of origami.

Expressions in Paint
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Nikolay Mikushkin: impressionistic traditional landscape and floral oil paintings on canvas
Bobbi Lamb: ceramics finished in a painterly fashion

84th Annual Juried Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

Objects & Atmospheres
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Nathan Sullivan: Paintings and lithographs
Joshua Primmer: Stoneware vessels
Brenda Edwards: Paintings and drawings

Sullivan's oil on panel "Form Series" are masterfully painted, Vermeer-like in their surface quality. His images of suspended or floating tiny organic objects such as seeds are rendered to large scale in chiaroscuro, resulting in their otherworldly presence.

Primmer is exhibiting his intimately scaled stoneware objects and vessels. While one may consider the relatively small scale of his work, it possesses a monumentality usually restricted to large scale work and architecture.

Edwards' depictions in her soft focus drawings and paintings range from sultry atmospheres to luminous mists. They are moments that catch the play of light in their respective environments.

Joan Lukas Rothenberg: A Retrospective
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Joan Lukas Rothenberg's art involvement began early in her life. As the director of the "Art Squad" at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, Joan was awarded the New York Society of Illustrators prize for her poster depicting the plight of children in poverty. She studied art at New York City's Cooper Union before earning her Master of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics from the University of Michigan and further study in drawing and printmaking at Royal University College in Stockholm.

In Syracuse, Joan was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women's consciousness-raising group which evolved into the Women's Information Center in 1972. She also founded and operated Auragyns, a women's art gallery. Joan was in the process of completing her PhD in Women's Studies at Syracuse University, studying images of women in the media, at the time of her death in 1990.

In celebration of Joan's spirit, tenacity, and vision, Red House will feature a series of group exhibitions promoting local, professional and student women artists. The retrospective will inaugurate this Emerging Women Artist series. The retrospective and the series are both made possible by a grant from the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 for more information or to schedule a viewing.

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4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available, the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

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Works of Cui Fei
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Born in Jinan, China, Cui received her BFA degree in painting from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China (now China National Academy of Fine Arts) in 1993, and her MFA degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Nature is a recurring theme in Cui's work; an artist mainly known for her abstract Chinese calligraphy and related installations using twigs or thorns. For this exhibit, she will create works on paper using thorns and an installation consisting of salt, as a reference to Syracuse's history. Her work comments on the central role of nature, her Chinese origins, and current practices in the West. The vault will display a healing piece using sand referring to the tradition of sand paintings by Native Americans, Tibetan monks, Indians, Australian Aborigines, and Latin Americans. Though widely exhibited, this is Cui's first solo museum exhibition.

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D-Build
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free, but registration is required
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

D-Build, developed by Rob Englert and his team at ram industrial design inc., is an innovative project that aims to connect artists, designers and builders with desirable reclaimed materials through their website, www.D-build.org. Join Rob Englert for a presentation and conversation about the potential for community collaboration among individuals, companies, artists and designers to reclaim local resources and transform them into art, furniture and more-the potentials are endless!

Please contact Pam McLaughlin, Curator of Education, 315-474 6064, x308 or pmclaughlin@everson.org to reserve your place.

Green the Ghetto and How Much it Won't Cost Us
University Lectures
Featuring Majora Carter

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

While the term "green-collar jobs" gains more press and pundits daily, very few people have actually marshaled the resources to get unemployed Americans trained and placed on pathways out of poverty in this growing economic sector. Majora Carter has.

Born, raised, and continuing to live in the South Bronx, her work takes her around the world in pursuit of resources and ideas to improve the quality of life in environmentally challenged communities. She founded Sustainable South Bronx in 2001 and by 2003 had implemented the highly successful Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training (BEST) program—a pioneering green-collar job training and placement system—seeding communities with a skilled workforce that has both a personal and economic stake in their urban environment.

She is currently president of the green-collar economic consulting firm, Majora Carter Group, LLC. Her vision, drive, and tenacity earned a MacArthur "genius" Fellowship. Newsweek named her one of "25 To Watch" in 2007, and one of the "century's most important environmentalists" in 2008. Carter is a board member of the Wilderness Society, SJF, and CERES. She hosts a special national public radio series, "The Promised Land," on the Sundance Channel. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems.

Reduced-rate parking for the event is available in the Irving Avenue parking garage.

Great Big Sea
Westcott Theater

Price: $25-$30
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Works by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore, and Charlie Wollowitz.

Anagama Nakama: 7 Anagama Potters
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Works by Marvin Bjurlin, Julie Crosby, Fred Herbst, Cary Joseph, Marc Peter Keane, Chris Longwell, and Momoko Takeshita.

OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

OCC Faculty Art Show is a collection of artworks in various mediums from about 20 art instructors. The work covers a broad range of genres including elements of representational, nonrepresentational and abstract art forms.

La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 1
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A special program to commemorate Point of Contact's 35th anniversary and The Point of Contact Gallery's 5th -- a show of the entire permanent collection in five exhibitions starting in September 2010.

Exhibit 1: Works of Burt Barr, Papo Colo, Gregory Crewdson, Judy Pfaff, Rob Van Erve, Sandy Skoglund

Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond" features the work of five SU faculty members -- Anne Cofer, Mary Giehl and Sarah Saulson (fiber arts/material studies) and Marion Dorfer and Eileen Gosson (surface pattern design).

Cofer, an installation artist, had her first museum solo exhibition "Concealed Objects" at the Everson Museum of Art in spring 2009 and a permanent site-specific project for SU's Hinds Hall installed in May. She has been published nationally in Ceramics Monthly and internationally in Ceramics Art and Perception. Her work has been pictured in the New York Times and was selected for “500 Ceramic Sculptures” (Lark, 2009).

Dorfer began her successful freelance business, MY Designs, after graduating from SU. From 1986-2004, she collaborated with her agent John Sacks of Jane-Albert Studios Inc. in New York City. Her speculative design work was exhibited and sold yearly at the studio as well as at the Surtex (New York City), Heimtextil (Germany) and Indigo (France) trade shows. Through Jane-Albert Studios and independent commissions, she has created designs for printed and woven textiles, wall covering, glass, ceramic products and paper products.

Giehl, who creates installations as well as two-dimensional work and sculpture, recently exhibited her work in group shows at Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art in Utica; ArtRage and Point of Contact Gallery in Syracuse; the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn; and Main Street Gallery in Groton. Her numerous community art projects include serving as guest curator for Syracuse's Lipe Art Park, where she is working to enhance the park's 600-foot fence by creating an abstract image of the Erie Canal using felt made from recycled plastic bottles.

Gosson's professional career began as a designer and colorist for Scalamandré Silks in New York City; she later worked as an assistant to Anne Marie de Samarjay, owner of Samarjay Associates, a surface pattern design agency in Manhattan. That position led to 20-plus years of freelance design experience for multiple product categories within industry. Her clients include Waverly, a division of F. Schumacher & Co.; Brewster Wallcovering Co.; Kenneth James line; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Lynn Hollyn Associates, the Smithsonian Institution; Warner Wallcovering; Western Textile Co.; and Brunschwig & Fils.

Saulson is a professional handweaver and workshop leader with an interest in ethnic textiles and processes. She served on the board of Weave a Real Peace, an organization that serves as a catalyst for improving the quality of life of weavers and textile artisans in communities-in-need, and she has taught dyeing and weaving in Ghana, where she also conducted a research project on craft cooperatives for SERRV International, a nonprofit, fair trade organization. She recently exhibited her work at Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts.

Honoring The Masters: Works of Ann Milner and Phil DeMocker
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

"Honoring the Masters," featuring Ann Milner's oriental brush painting and Phil DeMocker's origami, is a tribute to artists of the past setting the standards for today's active artists and gallery goers. Highlighted will be "masters" from noted dynasties. The "Mustard Seed Garden Manual, first published in the mid-1600s, will be the reference for some techniques in both learning and creating pieces of Oriental brush painting. Reproductions of work from ancient and more recent masters will show the background and heritage next to current representations of classical subjects and composition.

Origami pieces will represent Phil's favorite designer/folders and will be labeled to explain why he has chosen those artists.

As with most art, copying the work of an established artist is considered distasteful and cheap. While the art of the Orient to copy a master is considered one highest forms of art. Ann Milner is painting in the Sumie style from the Mustard Seed Manual, a comprehensive work of style, structure and form. Phil DeMocker is working from the works of both past and present masters of origami.

Expressions in Paint
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Nikolay Mikushkin: impressionistic traditional landscape and floral oil paintings on canvas
Bobbi Lamb: ceramics finished in a painterly fashion

84th Annual Juried Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

Objects & Atmospheres
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Nathan Sullivan: Paintings and lithographs
Joshua Primmer: Stoneware vessels
Brenda Edwards: Paintings and drawings

Sullivan's oil on panel "Form Series" are masterfully painted, Vermeer-like in their surface quality. His images of suspended or floating tiny organic objects such as seeds are rendered to large scale in chiaroscuro, resulting in their otherworldly presence.

Primmer is exhibiting his intimately scaled stoneware objects and vessels. While one may consider the relatively small scale of his work, it possesses a monumentality usually restricted to large scale work and architecture.

Edwards' depictions in her soft focus drawings and paintings range from sultry atmospheres to luminous mists. They are moments that catch the play of light in their respective environments.

Joan Lukas Rothenberg: A Retrospective
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Joan Lukas Rothenberg's art involvement began early in her life. As the director of the "Art Squad" at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, Joan was awarded the New York Society of Illustrators prize for her poster depicting the plight of children in poverty. She studied art at New York City's Cooper Union before earning her Master of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics from the University of Michigan and further study in drawing and printmaking at Royal University College in Stockholm.

In Syracuse, Joan was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women's consciousness-raising group which evolved into the Women's Information Center in 1972. She also founded and operated Auragyns, a women's art gallery. Joan was in the process of completing her PhD in Women's Studies at Syracuse University, studying images of women in the media, at the time of her death in 1990.

In celebration of Joan's spirit, tenacity, and vision, Red House will feature a series of group exhibitions promoting local, professional and student women artists. The retrospective will inaugurate this Emerging Women Artist series. The retrospective and the series are both made possible by a grant from the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 for more information or to schedule a viewing.

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4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available, the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

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Monumental Printstallations
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Large-scale works created by artists at Lake Effect Editions, the press of the printmaking program at Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, are the subject of this exhibition. The show features the work of student, faculty, and visiting artists, including Nicholaus Arnold, Marco Camacho, Susan Edmunds, John Hancock, Dusty Herbig, Neil Hueber, Eric Johanni, Rich Kim, Kristen Leonard, and Sam Tobias.

Works of Cui Fei
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Born in Jinan, China, Cui received her BFA degree in painting from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China (now China National Academy of Fine Arts) in 1993, and her MFA degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Nature is a recurring theme in Cui's work; an artist mainly known for her abstract Chinese calligraphy and related installations using twigs or thorns. For this exhibit, she will create works on paper using thorns and an installation consisting of salt, as a reference to Syracuse's history. Her work comments on the central role of nature, her Chinese origins, and current practices in the West. The vault will display a healing piece using sand referring to the tradition of sand paintings by Native Americans, Tibetan monks, Indians, Australian Aborigines, and Latin Americans. Though widely exhibited, this is Cui's first solo museum exhibition.

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Holding Phenomenae and Object Transitions
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

Photographs and assemblages by Sarah Averill.

Americans Who Tell the Truth: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A collection of portraits intended to remind people of the dignity, courage and importance of some of America's truth tellers. Each portrait includes a moving quote by the subject, and a biography is displayed with each painting. One lesson to be learned from all of these Americans is that the greatness of our country frequently depends not on the letter of the law, but the insistence of a single person that we adhere to the spirit of the law.

Sharon I-Chun Cheng, soprano; Michael Fennelly, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: Free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A program of vocal and piano works inspired by Liszt and Verdi's brief encounter.

Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime, with Scotty Don't and Full Service
Westcott Theater

Price: $15
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Works by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore, and Charlie Wollowitz.

Anagama Nakama: 7 Anagama Potters
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Works by Marvin Bjurlin, Julie Crosby, Fred Herbst, Cary Joseph, Marc Peter Keane, Chris Longwell, and Momoko Takeshita.

OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

OCC Faculty Art Show is a collection of artworks in various mediums from about 20 art instructors. The work covers a broad range of genres including elements of representational, nonrepresentational and abstract art forms.

Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond" features the work of five SU faculty members -- Anne Cofer, Mary Giehl and Sarah Saulson (fiber arts/material studies) and Marion Dorfer and Eileen Gosson (surface pattern design).

Cofer, an installation artist, had her first museum solo exhibition "Concealed Objects" at the Everson Museum of Art in spring 2009 and a permanent site-specific project for SU's Hinds Hall installed in May. She has been published nationally in Ceramics Monthly and internationally in Ceramics Art and Perception. Her work has been pictured in the New York Times and was selected for “500 Ceramic Sculptures” (Lark, 2009).

Dorfer began her successful freelance business, MY Designs, after graduating from SU. From 1986-2004, she collaborated with her agent John Sacks of Jane-Albert Studios Inc. in New York City. Her speculative design work was exhibited and sold yearly at the studio as well as at the Surtex (New York City), Heimtextil (Germany) and Indigo (France) trade shows. Through Jane-Albert Studios and independent commissions, she has created designs for printed and woven textiles, wall covering, glass, ceramic products and paper products.

Giehl, who creates installations as well as two-dimensional work and sculpture, recently exhibited her work in group shows at Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art in Utica; ArtRage and Point of Contact Gallery in Syracuse; the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn; and Main Street Gallery in Groton. Her numerous community art projects include serving as guest curator for Syracuse's Lipe Art Park, where she is working to enhance the park's 600-foot fence by creating an abstract image of the Erie Canal using felt made from recycled plastic bottles.

Gosson's professional career began as a designer and colorist for Scalamandré Silks in New York City; she later worked as an assistant to Anne Marie de Samarjay, owner of Samarjay Associates, a surface pattern design agency in Manhattan. That position led to 20-plus years of freelance design experience for multiple product categories within industry. Her clients include Waverly, a division of F. Schumacher & Co.; Brewster Wallcovering Co.; Kenneth James line; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Lynn Hollyn Associates, the Smithsonian Institution; Warner Wallcovering; Western Textile Co.; and Brunschwig & Fils.

Saulson is a professional handweaver and workshop leader with an interest in ethnic textiles and processes. She served on the board of Weave a Real Peace, an organization that serves as a catalyst for improving the quality of life of weavers and textile artisans in communities-in-need, and she has taught dyeing and weaving in Ghana, where she also conducted a research project on craft cooperatives for SERRV International, a nonprofit, fair trade organization. She recently exhibited her work at Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts.

Honoring The Masters: Works of Ann Milner and Phil DeMocker
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

"Honoring the Masters," featuring Ann Milner's oriental brush painting and Phil DeMocker's origami, is a tribute to artists of the past setting the standards for today's active artists and gallery goers. Highlighted will be "masters" from noted dynasties. The "Mustard Seed Garden Manual, first published in the mid-1600s, will be the reference for some techniques in both learning and creating pieces of Oriental brush painting. Reproductions of work from ancient and more recent masters will show the background and heritage next to current representations of classical subjects and composition.

Origami pieces will represent Phil's favorite designer/folders and will be labeled to explain why he has chosen those artists.

As with most art, copying the work of an established artist is considered distasteful and cheap. While the art of the Orient to copy a master is considered one highest forms of art. Ann Milner is painting in the Sumie style from the Mustard Seed Manual, a comprehensive work of style, structure and form. Phil DeMocker is working from the works of both past and present masters of origami.

Expressions in Paint
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Nikolay Mikushkin: impressionistic traditional landscape and floral oil paintings on canvas
Bobbi Lamb: ceramics finished in a painterly fashion

84th Annual Juried Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

Objects & Atmospheres
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Nathan Sullivan: Paintings and lithographs
Joshua Primmer: Stoneware vessels
Brenda Edwards: Paintings and drawings

Sullivan's oil on panel "Form Series" are masterfully painted, Vermeer-like in their surface quality. His images of suspended or floating tiny organic objects such as seeds are rendered to large scale in chiaroscuro, resulting in their otherworldly presence.

Primmer is exhibiting his intimately scaled stoneware objects and vessels. While one may consider the relatively small scale of his work, it possesses a monumentality usually restricted to large scale work and architecture.

Edwards' depictions in her soft focus drawings and paintings range from sultry atmospheres to luminous mists. They are moments that catch the play of light in their respective environments.

Joan Lukas Rothenberg: A Retrospective
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Joan Lukas Rothenberg's art involvement began early in her life. As the director of the "Art Squad" at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, Joan was awarded the New York Society of Illustrators prize for her poster depicting the plight of children in poverty. She studied art at New York City's Cooper Union before earning her Master of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics from the University of Michigan and further study in drawing and printmaking at Royal University College in Stockholm.

In Syracuse, Joan was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women's consciousness-raising group which evolved into the Women's Information Center in 1972. She also founded and operated Auragyns, a women's art gallery. Joan was in the process of completing her PhD in Women's Studies at Syracuse University, studying images of women in the media, at the time of her death in 1990.

In celebration of Joan's spirit, tenacity, and vision, Red House will feature a series of group exhibitions promoting local, professional and student women artists. The retrospective will inaugurate this Emerging Women Artist series. The retrospective and the series are both made possible by a grant from the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 for more information or to schedule a viewing.

Read a review!

4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available, the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

Read a Review!

Monumental Printstallations
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Large-scale works created by artists at Lake Effect Editions, the press of the printmaking program at Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, are the subject of this exhibition. The show features the work of student, faculty, and visiting artists, including Nicholaus Arnold, Marco Camacho, Susan Edmunds, John Hancock, Dusty Herbig, Neil Hueber, Eric Johanni, Rich Kim, Kristen Leonard, and Sam Tobias.

Works of Cui Fei
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Born in Jinan, China, Cui received her BFA degree in painting from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China (now China National Academy of Fine Arts) in 1993, and her MFA degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Nature is a recurring theme in Cui's work; an artist mainly known for her abstract Chinese calligraphy and related installations using twigs or thorns. For this exhibit, she will create works on paper using thorns and an installation consisting of salt, as a reference to Syracuse's history. Her work comments on the central role of nature, her Chinese origins, and current practices in the West. The vault will display a healing piece using sand referring to the tradition of sand paintings by Native Americans, Tibetan monks, Indians, Australian Aborigines, and Latin Americans. Though widely exhibited, this is Cui's first solo museum exhibition.

Read a review!

Holding Phenomenae and Object Transitions
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

Photographs and assemblages by Sarah Averill.

Americans Who Tell the Truth: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A collection of portraits intended to remind people of the dignity, courage and importance of some of America's truth tellers. Each portrait includes a moving quote by the subject, and a biography is displayed with each painting. One lesson to be learned from all of these Americans is that the greatness of our country frequently depends not on the letter of the law, but the insistence of a single person that we adhere to the spirit of the law.

Bill Viola: The Quintet of the Astonished, 2000
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"The Quintet of the Astonished" shows the unfolding expressions of five actors in such extreme slow motion that every minute detail of their changing facial expressions and movements can be detected. In this piece artist Bill Viola explores the cathartic power within grief, personal suffering, and bereavement.

Viola's work often exhibits a painterly quality and "The Quintet of the Astonished" clearly references his interests in medieval and classical depictions of emotion. In 1998, while a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute which that year explored the theme of The Passions, Viola revisited images of medieval and renaissance painting, frescoes, and architecture that had influenced him during his time in Florence, Italy in 1974. Having lost both of his parents by the time he was at the Getty, he found himself drawn to images of devotional art that continue to influence his art today.

Bill Viola: Two Women, 2008
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"Two Women" is part of an extended body of Bill Viola's work titled the Transfigurations series. Inspired by his interest in the Buddhist idea of death as a passage to rebirth, Viola has filmed actors drenched in water and consumed by fire. In Viola's slow-motion world, the viewer senses not only the destructive and violent power of the elements but their transformative and cathartic power as well. For "Two Women," the artist created a physical apparatus in his studio that allows the two actors to effortlessly pass through a wall of water. Viola is known for using a minimum of digital effects. The real time for this performance is only moments but the finished video is nine minutes long, allowing viewers time to savor the beauty of the moving water, light, and figures.

The Transfigurations series is often described as visceral. In his writing Viola states, "I want someone to have the experience that is engaging for their mind, but I also want something that is engaging and involving for their body."

Jon Swindler, printmaker
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Comstock Art Facility
1055 Comstock Ave., Syracuse

Printmaker Jon Swindler, assistant professor at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens, will serve as a visiting artist Sept. 22-24. His ,public lectur followed by a reception, will be held in room 022. Parking is available in the Manley North lot.

Chopin 200th Birthday Celebration
LeMoyne College
Featuring Paul Wyse, piano

Price: $15 general public, $10 seniors, students free
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Throughout 2010, in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Polish composer/pianist Frederic Chopin, artists will perform all-Chopin piano recitals at Le Moyne College.

The series continues with Paul Wyse performing the Second Sonata, four Impromptus, and assorted short works.

hell strung and crooked
ArtRage Gallery
Featuring Mary McLaughlin Slechta, Robert Gibbons, and Joseph Fritsch, poets

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Poetry taken to the edge and back round again"

Poetry/performance by Mary McLaughlin Slechta, Robert Gibbons and Joseph Fritsch from the latest book produced by Uphook Press, a New York City-based publisher specializing in work by poets and spoken words artists who love both the ink and the mike. hell strung and crooked is their second anthology, taken from open submission, with the aim to promote a nationwide community of performing poets. Featuring 41 poets from San Francisco, Atlanta, Nashville, Boston, Seattle, New York, and elsewhere, hell strung and crooked also includes interviews with National Book Award winner Mark Doty and the Danish writer-performer Claus Ankersen.

My Dead Lady
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $32.50 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive comedy/mystery dinner theater.

Professor Barry Biggins has a problem. Azalia Dimwittle has completely failed every attempt to elevate her from Cockney flower girl to aristocratic lady. She simply hasn’t gotten it, never will get it, and now everyone has just about had it. To make matters worse, she’s invited you and the rest of her conniving family over to the Professor's house for her father's birthday party. By George, I think she's going to get it (if she doesn't get them first).

From Cuba to 'Cuse
Redhouse

Price: $20
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Jose Miguel Hernandez Hurtado presents From Cuba to 'Cuse, a his personal story of growing up in Cuba and the culture clash he encountered upon immigrating to the United States.

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